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China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment
- sunstone 7y agoSo the gauntlet has been dropped and a new era ensues.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoNo, this is them hardening their infrastructure. Getting rid of all the external sourced backdoors.
- auggierose 7y agoI guess both
- altacc 7y agoSeems this could be a win-win for China: - Increases the pressure of the trade war on the US. - Motivates China's already strong technology industry to develop equivalent specification technology for all components, which it can also sell abroad. - Removes the possibility of security compromised components from outside China and instead enables China to include its own backdoors wherever it wants.
- oska 7y agoCould also be a win for Lenovo laptop users if they improve their support for GNU/Linux, including offering it pre-installed. Which is the only option I can see open to them if they are replacing Windows.
- datashow 7y agoThe title misses " and software". Isn't Linux "foreign"?